Weekly PQs -- Westminster: The House of Commons.

The journal EPM Weekly reports a selection of written parliamentary questions on education from the Great Britain House of Commons and the House of Lords. To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many times he has used the power under section 71 of the Education Act 2002 to direct a local education authority to exercise its powers to secure provision for an additional number of pupils. He replied that it has not yet been necessary to exercise this power under section 71 of the Education Act 2002. It was introduced as a complement to the powers of Section 70 of the Act, which require competitions for additional secondary schools.